Yup completely normal to me!!! DD1 is just starting to come out the other side of this (but will still do the cup tantrums - we just give her the option of having it or not having it, and she learnt pretty bloody quickly to suck it up and have it in the original cup colour otherwise no milk!! lol)

Mostly we use distraction here. If she's having a bad one, we'll put on music or something and try to get her dancing. Or we'll put on a funny voice and that sometimes makes her forget what she's tantruming about. Or we'll tickle her... or chase her around the house - anything to get the tanty to stop! We don't smack for tanties here cos I don't think that really helps her learn to control her emotions and thats all a tanty is really, out of control!

Above all, try to keep a sense of humour cos it just makes you feel crappy when you get crappy at them (well it does for me anyway!). Its taken to #2 child for me to learn how to do this even somewhat successfully, but it makes the day much more pleasant

Just don't ask me for advice on tantys by a 15 month old cos thats doing my head in at the moment.. LOL